does the lucian alliance even make sense?

[shadowdrake]

in the early days of sg1 (episode 2 maybe?) teal'c is being questioned about how goold weapons work and he says something to the effect of "knowlage of goold magic is forbidan" which means even the jaffa don't know how anything works behind the scenes. ya they know how to fly the ships but they likley don't know how the hyperdrive works (and if you don't understand it how do you rapair it meaningfully) sometime shortly after the end of the system lords the jaffa (and LA) should start running out of componets to fix what they know how to fix and start loosing ships to things they can't fix. the system lords would never allow a jaffa (even moreso never a human) to understand goold tech well enough that they could continue using it for an extended pperiod without the goold)

[garhkal]

Maybe the Jaffa were kept in the dark, but not other servants who were the ones they USED to build/repair their ships.. Which is where a good chunk of the LA come from?
Either that, or as the Gou'ald were starting to fall, lots of other started realizing it wasn't magic and they were not gods, but merely stronger people.. so started researching it themselves..

[StargateMillennium]

During the Goa'uld Empire, it's likely the Goa'uld scientists knew and they simply gave basic instructions to jaffa and slaves. I could give you instructions on how to build and program a computer and as long as you follow those instructions you could build one without knowing how it actually works. If I had a team of you and compartmentalized what each member does then no one would be able to figure it out.
Also notice that the jaffa don't really fix the ships, it's always a Goa'uld scientist at a computer terminal fixing things.

When the Lucian Alliance took over they could've tortured a jaffa or Goa'uld to learn how to fly a ship and if any of them can read Goa'uld then they could probably read the schematics on how the ship works.

[garhkal]

And as Tea'lc showed many times, even Jaffa got instructed on reading gou'ald..

[knowles2]

in the early days of sg1 (episode 2 maybe?) teal'c is being questioned about how goold weapons work and he says something to the effect of "knowledge of goold magic is forbidden" which means even the jaffa don't know how anything works behind the scenes. ya they know how to fly the ships but they likely don't know how the hyperdrive works (and if you don't understand it how do you repair it meaningfully) sometime shortly after the end of the system lords the jaffa (and LA) should start running out of components to fix what they know how to fix and start loosing ships to things they can't fix. the system lords would never allow a jaffa (even more so never a human) to understand goold tech well enough that they could continue using it for an extended period without the goold)

That was under Apophis, we know other Goa'uld were a lot more liberal in their attitudes to humans. Sokar seem to have built and allow humans to live in advance, technological cities, compare Apophis who allow his people to live in medieval castles and Ra who left them in primitive egyptian level villages.

We also know the Goa'uld use slave labourers to build their ships, so some of them would have picked up advance knowledge would here and there. Yu was know as a pragmatist and his first prime was much more educated than teal'c.

An given that in the pass some Goa'uld went of an replicated advance ancient cloaking technologies, I suspect Jaffa education varied widely from one planet to the other, to one system lord to the other.

An this doesn't even mention that there were probably many people in the galaxy who may have come from technological advance societies that were somewhat destroy but maintain secret colonies and off world sites that may have come out of the wood work to aid the Jaffa in destroying the rest of the Goa'uld.